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there's not a #*us-egypt free trade geement given all the uncertainty in egypt within the foreseeable future, but if it is serious, egypt can reap many of the benefits of free trade through the massive expansion of the qu disirks system with -- qiz system with israel. they would lower the amount of israeli content required to be as part of the deal, but that would require the islamest president of egypt to recognize the benefits of much significantly broadened qiz relationship and to, in fact, utter the word publicly, "israel," something which he was not yet done in the official capacity. a third initiative, repairing israeli-turkish ties. it's in the interest of the countries. i know, mr. president, you tried, once to do this, and we did not succeed, but times have changed. syria has happened, they are weakened than before, and should benjamin netanyahu be elected, he'll be stronger after the election than he was the last time we tried to do this. after politics is clarified, it's time to try this again. well, one last set of items, what are the game changers? what are the unknowns a
there's not a #*us-egypt free trade geement given all the uncertainty in egypt within the foreseeable future, but if it is serious, egypt can reap many of the benefits of free trade through the massive expansion of the qu disirks system with -- qiz system with israel. they would lower the amount of israeli content required to be as part of the deal, but that would require the islamest president of egypt to recognize the benefits of much significantly broadened qiz relationship and to, in fact,...
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is it important for the united states to invest in egypt, for the private sector to invest in egypt, for the government to invest in learning about egypt? absolutely, yes. is it important for the united states government to help libya develop with the education that the ambassador mentioned and the clinics and the investment the roads and the alternative industries? absolutely crucial to do this. we need to focus on this. it could help to have coalitions with the europeans. but the europeans are in a somewhat perilous situation right now. we need to keep an eye on the ball here. we may be in a moment of debt and deficit in this country, but with the natural gas and oil mentioned earlier today all of this could be resolved. we are coming back as a country. this whole business is over with in six to eight years if we do the right thing. we need to keep in play our private sector needs to keep in play. if we don't, we are going to lose big time. and my sense is in the intermediate period where the government can't do all this, the private sector needs to step in, and the government need
is it important for the united states to invest in egypt, for the private sector to invest in egypt, for the government to invest in learning about egypt? absolutely, yes. is it important for the united states government to help libya develop with the education that the ambassador mentioned and the clinics and the investment the roads and the alternative industries? absolutely crucial to do this. we need to focus on this. it could help to have coalitions with the europeans. but the europeans...
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israel, egypt, pakistan, iraq, and afghanistan. nothing wrong with that, but we have to work with our frens to the south. we put in 1.4, and with additional money, it's $1.9 billion. for every one dollar we help with mexico, they spend $13. they spend a lot of money on security. they got to -- we got to understand what they are doing. now, what we started off, we did the easy thing, buy them hell cometters, buying this, and e worked with george bush, and filed the first legislation before bush talked about the plan because i felt that strongly about helping mexico, but nevertheless, we worked together. we did the easy thing with mexico, the helicopters and the planes. the hard part is this is we got to start training or billing the capacity, the prison systems, the prosecutors, the policemen. we're working on it at the federal level, and they trained 36,000 police. i think they need 150,000 or more than that. we have to go into judges, train the judges, the prosecutors. did you know that a prosecutor here in the united states, if h
israel, egypt, pakistan, iraq, and afghanistan. nothing wrong with that, but we have to work with our frens to the south. we put in 1.4, and with additional money, it's $1.9 billion. for every one dollar we help with mexico, they spend $13. they spend a lot of money on security. they got to -- we got to understand what they are doing. now, what we started off, we did the easy thing, buy them hell cometters, buying this, and e worked with george bush, and filed the first legislation before bush...
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egypt free trade agreement given all the uncertainty in egypt with in the foreseeable future. but if it is serious, egypt can read many of the benefits of free trade through the expansion of the system with israel. israel would do this in a heartbeat and with even lower the amount of an israeli continent to be required as part of the deal. but that would require the islamist president of egypt to recognize the benefits of broadened relationship and to in fact utter the word publicly israel, something which he hasn't yet done in his official capacity. a third initiative, repairing turkish israel ties. it's overdue, it's in our interests and in the interest of both of these countries i know mr. president you try once to do this and we did not succeed the the times have changed. syria has happened, it's weaker today than before and should he get reelected he will be after his election than he was after the last time we tried to do this after the politics is clarified it's time to try this again. one last set of items were the game changers what are the unknowns as dennis referred
egypt free trade agreement given all the uncertainty in egypt with in the foreseeable future. but if it is serious, egypt can read many of the benefits of free trade through the expansion of the system with israel. israel would do this in a heartbeat and with even lower the amount of an israeli continent to be required as part of the deal. but that would require the islamist president of egypt to recognize the benefits of broadened relationship and to in fact utter the word publicly israel,...
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-egypt free trade agreement given all the uncertainty in egypt within the foreseeable future. if it is serious, egypt can reap many of the benefits of free trade through a massive expansion of a qiz system with israel. israel would do this deal in a heartbeat and would lower the amount of is really content required as part of the deal. that would require the islamic president of egypt to recognize the benefits of much significantly broadened qic relationships and utter the word publicly -- israel -- which he has not done in his official capacity. a third initiative, repairing a turkish-israel ties. it is overdue and is in our interests and in the interest of both these countries. i know, mr. president, you tried wants to do this and did not succeed but times have changed. syria has happened. netanyahu will be stronger if he gets reelected. after the politics is clarified, it is time to try this again. well, one last set of items -- what are the game changers'? what are the unknowns that every administration has to deal with at some point in this part of the world? succumb to a
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we do this to egypt. and i'm sure what shibley was talking about before, this is ridiculous. there were millions of people in the streets at the end of january of 2011. every police station in alexandria had been burned down. tahrir square was occupied. we didn't make it happen. we couldn't have stopped it if we wanted to, and the recognition of that fact, i think, is really important. number one is that old idea that we can go back to simply working with friendly dictators, i think that's just gone. second, i think, which is really important is the idea that we can control the region, that in a sense the region is crying out for our leadership and that every problem in the region has to be solved by us. and i think we -- there's a healthy recognition now beat into us by the war on terror, by iraq and now by the arab uprisings that the ability of the united states to manage and control what happens in the region is quite limited. and so the combination of those two things, i think, then helps to explain a
we do this to egypt. and i'm sure what shibley was talking about before, this is ridiculous. there were millions of people in the streets at the end of january of 2011. every police station in alexandria had been burned down. tahrir square was occupied. we didn't make it happen. we couldn't have stopped it if we wanted to, and the recognition of that fact, i think, is really important. number one is that old idea that we can go back to simply working with friendly dictators, i think that's just...
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and the us isn't bad egypt has stood by its its peace treaty with israel so i would say so far so good and on iraq you know it didn't turn out as the bush administration had hoped for i agree with what john said that this is a government that is day by day getting more centralized and perhaps even autocratic what do we do about it are we supposed to invade again and spend another ten years in iraq trying to get them to some point it's i think you know one has why the length of the carriage and why oh why do americans have to. take root only from the bottom up why why does america have to get people to a certain point ok why peter you know i like to challenge a little bit the way you've been talking about the subject you keep constantly for a minute is american democracy promotion the interesting thing is that almost every establish democracy in the world whether it's brazil india korea spain australia canada engages in different kinds of international support for democracy there's a tendency i think particularly from the russian point of view to see this sort of democracy promotion sub
and the us isn't bad egypt has stood by its its peace treaty with israel so i would say so far so good and on iraq you know it didn't turn out as the bush administration had hoped for i agree with what john said that this is a government that is day by day getting more centralized and perhaps even autocratic what do we do about it are we supposed to invade again and spend another ten years in iraq trying to get them to some point it's i think you know one has why the length of the carriage and...
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palestinians and other issues as well egypt is another example because when the practiced i did in egypt the u.s. was very hesitant to label the protesters and labeled the president in that country so. a lot of it i think the arabs look at this and say we are just skeptical of anything that the u.s. is doing right now their intervention or no intervention in any country is a source of skepticism is a source of critique and that's very understandable when you know when the people have not seen it because a consistent position of the u.s. you know it's what's going on in the arab world lived through it i mean the egyptians we basically went to the last moment when we couldn't support mubarak anymore to jump in and be like we support the revolution but let's talk about syria . do you think that we're giving syria so much attention is it to kind of build up the militarization around iran more is it a proxy playground for us to kind of delve into our interest in the region what is going on there and what you think is going to happen a lot of people would give you different answers i don't thi
palestinians and other issues as well egypt is another example because when the practiced i did in egypt the u.s. was very hesitant to label the protesters and labeled the president in that country so. a lot of it i think the arabs look at this and say we are just skeptical of anything that the u.s. is doing right now their intervention or no intervention in any country is a source of skepticism is a source of critique and that's very understandable when you know when the people have not seen...
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foreign policy flags human rights abuses in countries like syria or egypt and makes one wonder why we condemn one country yet ignore another so what could these u.s. double standards mean for already tense us middle east relationship to help me break this all down and more i'm joined by our to arabic correspondent reba. dia thank you so much for coming on thank you for having me so what do you think about this recent banning of protests in bahrain and why are we hearing about this well then i would say that this is not the only sorry that's not making its way to the mainstream headlines in this country a lot of stories are not making their way to the headlines and a lot of it has to do with policymakers maybe thinking that this is not important enough for that american people to know this is not important enough for to make it to the american. public and this just shows you all how the whole by is the media is here and how they view it that one practice is more important than another product as one killing in one country is more important or less important than another killing in a di
foreign policy flags human rights abuses in countries like syria or egypt and makes one wonder why we condemn one country yet ignore another so what could these u.s. double standards mean for already tense us middle east relationship to help me break this all down and more i'm joined by our to arabic correspondent reba. dia thank you so much for coming on thank you for having me so what do you think about this recent banning of protests in bahrain and why are we hearing about this well then i...
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talked about what we found we look out egypt adhere to everything that was going on. people, you know, all over governments here were likely to we talk to? whose important? here's the scoop. right now industry there's nobody who can raise their hand and so i can identify who was the leader of egyptian revolution, because there wasn't one. it was coalition's ever-changing coalitions of interest moving. as you look at the social media map you see that there was no one leader. so we have got, we as a government and, frankly, governments everywhere have got to figure out to do that, how did he get into that marketplace of ideas. one of the things that we did, not surprising with my background, i was very focused on consumer research, understand what was going on. one of the things i found it in government, we spent a lot of time, hundreds of millions of dollars, looking at economic elites, political elites in others, looking through different lenses. if you just look at it that way, you don't look at it to a more classic consumer lens, then if you are a young 20 year old
talked about what we found we look out egypt adhere to everything that was going on. people, you know, all over governments here were likely to we talk to? whose important? here's the scoop. right now industry there's nobody who can raise their hand and so i can identify who was the leader of egyptian revolution, because there wasn't one. it was coalition's ever-changing coalitions of interest moving. as you look at the social media map you see that there was no one leader. so we have got, we...
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you're watching weekly on r t two egypt now on the third consecutive day of clashes police and car. crowds protesting against the president's decree granting him sweeping new powers his decisions can now no longer be challenged by any authority more than twenty egyptian rights groups have urged him to renounce the decision the opposition has vowed to fight what it calls a dictator like power grab until the very end and staging a sit in that car is told his square prison morsy those defended the move saying it's intended to protect the revolution that paved his way to power after hosni mubarak and his latest comments the leaders stressed his new powers are temporary lawrence freeman from the executive intelligence review magazine says that egypt's political future is now being put to the test. on a slippery slope and it shows you how fragile delicate. this whole movement that was launched a couple years ago or democracy i sometimes say so-called democracy be courageous they're not really giving democratic rights to the people unless the people are participating in the government and
you're watching weekly on r t two egypt now on the third consecutive day of clashes police and car. crowds protesting against the president's decree granting him sweeping new powers his decisions can now no longer be challenged by any authority more than twenty egyptian rights groups have urged him to renounce the decision the opposition has vowed to fight what it calls a dictator like power grab until the very end and staging a sit in that car is told his square prison morsy those defended the...
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well clashes in egypt in different parts of egypt have erupted as thousands of protesters have taken to the streets reacting to calls from the country's opposition leaders for nationwide demonstrations the outrage is driven by a new decree granting president mohamed morsi a wider range of powers his decisions can no longer be repealed by any authority including the judiciary the move was slammed as a coup against legitimacy of the opposition claiming that the president has appointed himself but actually the egypt's new pharaoh now morsi took power in june this year following the nation's first presidential election after the ousting of former leader hosni mubarak earlier we spoke to shame a hell of a human rights activist and she says the people are confused as members of the former regime are now part of the opposition. there are lots of questions in many you know decisions that come randomly that nobody understands. we are pretty confused over why would she make such decisions at the movements and why not earlier why not anytime soon the news. right now in the video position cam do
well clashes in egypt in different parts of egypt have erupted as thousands of protesters have taken to the streets reacting to calls from the country's opposition leaders for nationwide demonstrations the outrage is driven by a new decree granting president mohamed morsi a wider range of powers his decisions can no longer be repealed by any authority including the judiciary the move was slammed as a coup against legitimacy of the opposition claiming that the president has appointed himself but...
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he's also has some kind of strong he has strong backing from the west so till the actual people of egypt like all these other countries that have gone through these to mold to his time to people are giving real. it's to grow until we get real freedom this is going to continue to be a problem people risk their lives people stayed out of demonstrations people been pummeled by police first on the bar now in the morsi it's not going to stop do we actually have a real power for the future of the country you leaders of lost the budget battle in brussels where the decision on their trillion euro come on spending now moved to next year weaker members had rushed to safeguard support programs while those pouring in more cash into european coffers urged belt tightening and the u.k. was among the loudest voices in favor of coughing up last r.t. sarah firth explains. with the european commission in london but in a week that seeing the brussels budget debate olson italy ending in failure is once again britain's place within europe is back in the spotlight the european leaders ultimately failing to com
he's also has some kind of strong he has strong backing from the west so till the actual people of egypt like all these other countries that have gone through these to mold to his time to people are giving real. it's to grow until we get real freedom this is going to continue to be a problem people risk their lives people stayed out of demonstrations people been pummeled by police first on the bar now in the morsi it's not going to stop do we actually have a real power for the future of the...
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helmi human rights activist speaking to us from egypt think i will from the middle east to the far east where north korea is reportedly getting ready to test another one of its missiles tensions are building on the korean peninsula with the south holding military drills in order to mark the shelling of its territory by young and two years ago also for you. according bahrain has a jail terms to not exceed treated pro-reform protesters as the country is slammed by human rights organizations for the long running brutal crackdown on dissent. british lib dem minister lynne featherstone said that since women have babies it allows men to pass them up on the letter to power essentially children are set back for women who want to be successful and equal to men so they want to give men the option of taking maternity leave or would that be paternity leave i don't know i kind of see the logic of her view but my question is featherstone is why exactly is success in the corporate world the primary goal of life for men and women as a feminist i would think you understand that wanting to fight your way
helmi human rights activist speaking to us from egypt think i will from the middle east to the far east where north korea is reportedly getting ready to test another one of its missiles tensions are building on the korean peninsula with the south holding military drills in order to mark the shelling of its territory by young and two years ago also for you. according bahrain has a jail terms to not exceed treated pro-reform protesters as the country is slammed by human rights organizations for...
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, and i think it's important to understand what sort of things egypt needed right away was an ability to sell government bonds and treasury bills were because it takes about 14% interest which is pretty high for a government come and immediate deaths things look terrible. they came in and said okay. we will buy your one month issue of bills. a good payment unless the government defaults on everything. but that has helped relieve some of the interest pressure and try to move egypt out of the debt trap than greece or italy or spain. the second thing they have done is like the development bank there's quite good development banks that help identify the investment projects, make sure they are built without corruption and that they become effective. i think it is $4.5 billion that were qatar and saudi arabia have and christine was out there in september and they were working on a long program, very low interest rate and there would be another four and a half million or so but then egypt has a fighting chance to get an economy back on its feet. if you have an economy back on its feet then i
, and i think it's important to understand what sort of things egypt needed right away was an ability to sell government bonds and treasury bills were because it takes about 14% interest which is pretty high for a government come and immediate deaths things look terrible. they came in and said okay. we will buy your one month issue of bills. a good payment unless the government defaults on everything. but that has helped relieve some of the interest pressure and try to move egypt out of the...
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because as a democratically elected government of gaza it's proved to have so many allies from iran to egypt they have to be part of any peace negotiations for a one party state which will after. scored its victory with the most basic of rockets really these homemade things is a sea change in actual nick the thing to watch is the right in israel and how they react out of the polling numbers for the coming israeli elections show a swing to the so-called extremists. well israel's deputy foreign minister says most of the people hit by israeli strikes deserved it claiming there were armed terrorists however palestinian health officials and human rights activists say more than two thirds of those killed were civilians almost half of them children israel though says the ratio is never actually perry a former senior advisor for israel's foreign ministry says the casualty figures demonstrate nutrients. israel has invested billions of dollars protecting its people either through more protected rooms so every single rockets which emanated from gaza had the intent to kill in fact it intended to kill ma
because as a democratically elected government of gaza it's proved to have so many allies from iran to egypt they have to be part of any peace negotiations for a one party state which will after. scored its victory with the most basic of rockets really these homemade things is a sea change in actual nick the thing to watch is the right in israel and how they react out of the polling numbers for the coming israeli elections show a swing to the so-called extremists. well israel's deputy foreign...
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this time the repository is not syria, but it is egypt, maybe turkey, and you have a secretary of state today and tomorrow to is going to plunge into this. the interesting question -- i am not want to prejudge this -- is whether or not this becomes -- is there even a conception that this would lead to an intensive bit of diplomacy that might last -- in the christopher case, it took weeks. we took weeks to produce this. i am not arguing this. i do not know if it is even possible. i have lost touch of that world. it is a interesting thought experiment because it reflects on what has changed in washington and in the regional landscape that we now confront. with that, we have 30 minutes for questions, and i will forgo mind, and i would ask that you identify yourself and ask a question. do we have a microphone? we do, i am sorry. over here, if you can speak loudly enough. >> based in beirut, lebanon. i have a question regarding the crisis in gaza, to the three panelists. do you think or do you believe that the united states did know about the escalation that was instigated by the israeli gov
this time the repository is not syria, but it is egypt, maybe turkey, and you have a secretary of state today and tomorrow to is going to plunge into this. the interesting question -- i am not want to prejudge this -- is whether or not this becomes -- is there even a conception that this would lead to an intensive bit of diplomacy that might last -- in the christopher case, it took weeks. we took weeks to produce this. i am not arguing this. i do not know if it is even possible. i have lost...
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workers who are refusing to just let go and of course these are the workers you're threatened with in egypt in egypt and layoffs and you to get your latest kind of package i was going to doing by the greek parliament should be able to really put on getting on a flight on the ground and is a just a matter of international media picking up a time to actually. now the greek anger is well understood and the u.k. thousands of students who are e.s.l. rocketing tuition fees have marched through london as the government struggles to hand the country's finances we report on that later in the fower. plus bahrain's war and its sliding into a spiral of repression and violence by amnesty international which can damage the country's ongoing human rights abuses and its broken reform promises more on that after the short break. british live demo minister lynne featherstone said that since women have babies it allows men to pass them up on the letter to power essentially children are a setback for women who want to be successful and equal to men so they want to give men the option of taking maternity leave
workers who are refusing to just let go and of course these are the workers you're threatened with in egypt in egypt and layoffs and you to get your latest kind of package i was going to doing by the greek parliament should be able to really put on getting on a flight on the ground and is a just a matter of international media picking up a time to actually. now the greek anger is well understood and the u.k. thousands of students who are e.s.l. rocketing tuition fees have marched through london...
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in which egypt, turkey, iran and ideally saudi arabia are seeking some sort of solution to the crisis. perhaps that effort being done at the regional level, the u.s. exercising its strengthened diplomacy at a more global level may help to bring the syrian crisis toward a softer landing. i would just close by saying this. i think throughout the debates and the discussions around not just syria, but frankly u.s. policy more broadly on the arab transitions whether it's with respect to libya, egypt or elsewhere, there's been this constant refrain that the u.s. has been absent. and i think there's a certain truth to that. but the second piece is that, therefore, the u.s. needs to engage militarily or needs to engage its hard power, and i would argue that between that -- within that spectrum, there are two ends of the spectrum. one doing nothing, the other exerting military and hard power influence. i would argue the most powerful and effective tool and the one that's discussed but the one i think provides the greatest hope is for the u.s. to engage using soft power. and i'll leave it at th
in which egypt, turkey, iran and ideally saudi arabia are seeking some sort of solution to the crisis. perhaps that effort being done at the regional level, the u.s. exercising its strengthened diplomacy at a more global level may help to bring the syrian crisis toward a softer landing. i would just close by saying this. i think throughout the debates and the discussions around not just syria, but frankly u.s. policy more broadly on the arab transitions whether it's with respect to libya, egypt...
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together between our country and saudi arabia is the fallout from the arab spring, particularly between egypt and yemen. i think we know that saudi arabia had mixed feelings about how quickly mubarak was dumped, and -- but they also, the saudis playeded a crucial role of easing yemen. it was not easy. it was slow. it was bloody, but compared to the other changes, it was not that bad. in april of to 20* -- 2011, just as the arab spring was in full bloom, if you will, the c7 finance ministers met in france and formed a partnership with the vision that was simple that europe had been through this kind of thing before. after eastern europe broke away
together between our country and saudi arabia is the fallout from the arab spring, particularly between egypt and yemen. i think we know that saudi arabia had mixed feelings about how quickly mubarak was dumped, and -- but they also, the saudis playeded a crucial role of easing yemen. it was not easy. it was slow. it was bloody, but compared to the other changes, it was not that bad. in april of to 20* -- 2011, just as the arab spring was in full bloom, if you will, the c7 finance ministers met...
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few months ago i think he's also has strong backing from the west i think until the actual people of egypt like all these other countries have gone through the third tamal to its time until the people are given real economic development totally given real freedom this is going to continue to be a problem people with their lives people stayed out of demonstrations people didn't commonly by police first on the mubarak now and the morsi it's not going to stop until we actually have a real policy for the future of the country. this week european union leaders failed to reach a deal and off the days of negotiating the blocks financial future in brussels most you members supported an increase in the budget while some including britain called for cuts claiming that in a time of a sturdy nations don't have money to spare sarah for three ports. we're here at the european commission in london but in a week that seeing the brussels budget debate over symmetry ending in failure is once again britain's place within europe is back in the spotlight the european leaders all similarly failing to come up wi
few months ago i think he's also has strong backing from the west i think until the actual people of egypt like all these other countries have gone through the third tamal to its time until the people are given real economic development totally given real freedom this is going to continue to be a problem people with their lives people stayed out of demonstrations people didn't commonly by police first on the mubarak now and the morsi it's not going to stop until we actually have a real policy...
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to egypt where protests have now entered their fourth day earlier police in cairo fired tear gas to disperse crowds the demonstrations are aimed against president morsi decree granting him sweeping new powers his decisions can now no longer be challenged by any authority reports say one person was killed in an attack on a muslim brotherhood office the same islam is the movement of the back the president the opposition is staging a sit in and cairo's tahrir square while egypt's top judges have called for a nationwide strike mohamed morsi has defended the move saying it's aimed at protecting the revolution that paved his way to power and his latest comments later stressed his new powers are temper. middle east analyst at the university of sydney believe the crisis is only deepening. its actual deadlock the fact that morsi has gone this far and he's actually moved. it would be you know he would have to lose face in order to do that but you know i don't have a moment really it's anyone's guess because the situation in egypt is the love it's all eyes and it's very mental politics and now i know y
to egypt where protests have now entered their fourth day earlier police in cairo fired tear gas to disperse crowds the demonstrations are aimed against president morsi decree granting him sweeping new powers his decisions can now no longer be challenged by any authority reports say one person was killed in an attack on a muslim brotherhood office the same islam is the movement of the back the president the opposition is staging a sit in and cairo's tahrir square while egypt's top judges have...
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increased safety and security situation and also to improving the conditions of people in gaza and egypt for its side has said that cairo has a historical duty to represent and help the people of palestine now the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu earlier held a telephone call with the american president barack obama in that phone call he said that israel was ready to give the cease fire a chance a bomb responded by saying that america was on hand to assist as well with its problem these are the smuggling of weapons and other items through the tunnels that lead between egypt gaza and sometimes even reaching a little bit into israel is what is of course very concerned around the claim that it needs to lift its blockade of the information we have is that while agreeing to the cease fire it has not given the nod that in fact it will lift the blockade it has had on gaza for several years now now the cease fire is a surprise to everyone it comes off to a bloody day both in israel and in gaza we have no details at this stage in terms of what exactly are the terms of the cease fire will
increased safety and security situation and also to improving the conditions of people in gaza and egypt for its side has said that cairo has a historical duty to represent and help the people of palestine now the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu earlier held a telephone call with the american president barack obama in that phone call he said that israel was ready to give the cease fire a chance a bomb responded by saying that america was on hand to assist as well with its problem...
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i think we actually had an effect in egypt. and one of the things that we have done at the bipartisan policy matter is to cod fie that effect. what did america do in egypt that might have helped a little bit in the arab springs? >> we have time for up with more question. hi. i'm matt. the senior policy annalist -- focusing on public diplomacy. [inaudible] bringing down the soviet union. what is the purpose now. the war of idea or against violent extremism. i'm hoping we have a better more grand strategic purpose. i was wondering for i could get your thoughts on that. >> sure. great. terrific. thank you for the question. the war of idea still a viable concept? or did we move past that? >> i think it's the most viable concept. i have to say that during the transition, i was warned by all the transition people not use that term. and i think i don't know whether the term has been banned or not. i understand that. war we don't like war. we like ideas. so i do think whatever you want to call it. ideological dr competition of idea is
i think we actually had an effect in egypt. and one of the things that we have done at the bipartisan policy matter is to cod fie that effect. what did america do in egypt that might have helped a little bit in the arab springs? >> we have time for up with more question. hi. i'm matt. the senior policy annalist -- focusing on public diplomacy. [inaudible] bringing down the soviet union. what is the purpose now. the war of idea or against violent extremism. i'm hoping we have a better more...
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hamas has just come into force something being hammered out during marathon negotiations hosted by egypt israel's been pounding the palestinian territory with missiles in both the air and sea for more than a week in response to hamas says cross border rockets a correspondent in tel aviv reports on the much sought after troops. a ceasefire has been announced and agreed to by both israel and hamas this is the second time in two days that we've heard such an announcement but this time it so does seem as if it's accurate it was earlier at a press conference between the u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton and the egyptian foreign minister at that press conference clinton said that the u.s. was committed to making sure that these raids face an increased safety and security situation and also to improving the conditions of people in gaza and egypt for its side has said that cairo has a historical duty to represent and help the people of palestine now the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu earlier held a telephone call with the american president barack obama in that phone call he sai
hamas has just come into force something being hammered out during marathon negotiations hosted by egypt israel's been pounding the palestinian territory with missiles in both the air and sea for more than a week in response to hamas says cross border rockets a correspondent in tel aviv reports on the much sought after troops. a ceasefire has been announced and agreed to by both israel and hamas this is the second time in two days that we've heard such an announcement but this time it so does...
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it's ten pm moscow time tonight egypt announces that a ceasefire between israel and hamas is to come into force an hour from now covering a desperate international push for a truce we've got the latest just ahead this comes of course despite the other israeli strikes on gaza which brought the death toll to over one hundred fifty and the terror blast in the center of tel aviv in retaliation. other top stories thousands of students hitting the streets of london crying out against rising tuition fees and a lack of financial support making it harder to get a higher education in the u.k. . plus a human rights blow for bahrain is amnesty international publishes a report showing torture and oppression getting worse said the king. good evening i'm kevin zero in thank you for choosing to see we're starting with that breaking news of just been talking about israel and palestinian group hamas have agreed to a cease fire in gaza after a marathon peace talks in egypt's capital cairo israel's been pounding the palestinian toe true with missiles from both the air and sea for more than a week now in
it's ten pm moscow time tonight egypt announces that a ceasefire between israel and hamas is to come into force an hour from now covering a desperate international push for a truce we've got the latest just ahead this comes of course despite the other israeli strikes on gaza which brought the death toll to over one hundred fifty and the terror blast in the center of tel aviv in retaliation. other top stories thousands of students hitting the streets of london crying out against rising tuition...
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in egypt to lay off due to too late this kind of package i was going to doing by the greek parliament so people are really put on getting on a fight on the ground and is just a matter of the international media picking up a time to actually. and as the greek struggle to draw attention to they are suffering there is a little relief on the horizon with a postcard of twenty two thousand more jobs put down to a mistake by the i.m.f. so had to call for the whole story. plus bearing all is sure to draw attention by staging a provocative protest as earned several feminist activist some want to welcome attention from french protestors. war lords will give him a note so we have a local. groups view of the closeness of the sluices also our views in the right enough to my mouth it was like many of them out h. it wasn't. the smadi when i was fourteen yes you can liberate other when they certainly can't do it through the barrel of a gun only effective social changes can be the afghans themselves afghan men and women we believe going to spawn come to a cross post without a patient it's chemical for
in egypt to lay off due to too late this kind of package i was going to doing by the greek parliament so people are really put on getting on a fight on the ground and is just a matter of the international media picking up a time to actually. and as the greek struggle to draw attention to they are suffering there is a little relief on the horizon with a postcard of twenty two thousand more jobs put down to a mistake by the i.m.f. so had to call for the whole story. plus bearing all is sure to...
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few months ago i think he's also has strong backing from the west i think until the actual people of egypt like all these other countries have gone through the city to malta his time intill the people are giving real economic development till the given real freedom this is going to continue to be a problem on people with their lives people stayed out of demonstrations people didn't commonly by police first on the bark now in the morsi it's not going to stop until we actually have a real policy for the future of the country. colonias local elections couldn't even beating a path away from spain people go to the polls with separatist parties looking set to win have a referendum on independence likely to fall. also coming up for you bahrain looks set for more protest rally is this is the country's main opposition group of violence to defy our government ban on public gatherings all that is despite a crackdown by police stations of torture they want us. texas wants to pull away from the usa in fact at least twenty states have started petitions for independence after obama won the election with
few months ago i think he's also has strong backing from the west i think until the actual people of egypt like all these other countries have gone through the city to malta his time intill the people are giving real economic development till the given real freedom this is going to continue to be a problem on people with their lives people stayed out of demonstrations people didn't commonly by police first on the bark now in the morsi it's not going to stop until we actually have a real policy...
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from the west i think until the actual people of egypt like all these other countries have gone through these thirty two most to his time until the people are given real economic development totally given real freedom this is going to continue to be a problem people risk their lives people stayed on demonstrations people did pummeled by police first on the bark now in the morsi it's not going to stop until we actually have a real policy for the future of the country catalonia as local elections could leave a beating a path away from spain people are heading to the polls the separatist party is looking set to winner and referendum and likely. also coming up for you know bahrain looks set for more protests rallies like the country's main opposition group ballasts defy a government ban on public gatherings the spite of profit out of by police and accusations torture story and more just ahead after the by. looking at some jokes you simply do not believe they come speak and goodness how they can wrong oh. it's an international sled dog race with those driving the dogs. coming from as far awa
from the west i think until the actual people of egypt like all these other countries have gone through these thirty two most to his time until the people are given real economic development totally given real freedom this is going to continue to be a problem people risk their lives people stayed on demonstrations people did pummeled by police first on the bark now in the morsi it's not going to stop until we actually have a real policy for the future of the country catalonia as local elections...
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policies of ousted president hosni mubarak the country is divided over the issue of islamic law and then egypt sions believes such policy will be a step backwards and a threat to civil liberties. the us has denied russia's request to transfer a former businessman victor borge who was convicted for arms dealing in america to his home country to serve his prison term that apartment of justice says it doesn't want to create an undesirable prison and due to the seriousness of the crime a u.s. court sentenced two to twenty five years in jail in april for conspiring to kill american nationals and to sell weapons to colombian rebels the x. businessman denies the charges russia has been trying to get him and sent home in line with an international convention moscow believes that boots prosecution was politically motivated with foreign minister sergei lavrov saying he will do all he can to get him transferred to his home country now multiculturalism is on the rise in norway but a growing islamic population is causing concern for manning an increasingly radical muslim movement is attempting to implement
policies of ousted president hosni mubarak the country is divided over the issue of islamic law and then egypt sions believes such policy will be a step backwards and a threat to civil liberties. the us has denied russia's request to transfer a former businessman victor borge who was convicted for arms dealing in america to his home country to serve his prison term that apartment of justice says it doesn't want to create an undesirable prison and due to the seriousness of the crime a u.s. court...
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we have other people in other countries here in the game and it's the united states as you know and egypt and there is some kind of understanding that if it's breaches also there's going to be consequences exactly what we're going to see what we're going to do we're going to see in the future but hopefully we won't get to that hopefully this understanding will be respected by all sides. is ready for a ministry spokesperson thank you ever so much going on to appreciate it thank goodness not to war it was done to bar says if israel wants to protect itself from gaza or must improve living conditions for the people in the palestinian territories is what he had to say. their condition degraded from being starving to being starving and bombed and now the bombing apparently will stop and so that is a reason to celebrate as meager as it might seem in the face of starvation again the the precondition to dealing with that is to give the people it's not just us at least you know enough to survive and have a decent life right now it's a million and a half people in an open and open air prison camp wi
we have other people in other countries here in the game and it's the united states as you know and egypt and there is some kind of understanding that if it's breaches also there's going to be consequences exactly what we're going to see what we're going to do we're going to see in the future but hopefully we won't get to that hopefully this understanding will be respected by all sides. is ready for a ministry spokesperson thank you ever so much going on to appreciate it thank goodness not to...
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to egypt now on the third consecutive day of clashes police and car tear gas or crowds protesting against the president's decree granting him sweeping new powers his decisions can no longer be challenged by any authority more than twenty egyptian rights groups have heard him to renounce the decision your position is valid to fight what he calls a dictator like power grab until the very end and staging a sit in that car is to his square prison morsi though has defended the be saying it's intended to protect the revolution paid his way to. hosni mubarak in his latest comments the leader stresses new powers of temporary freeman from the executive intelligence review magazine says egypt's political future is now being put to the test. what have mohammad morsi done mobarak in the height of his power could not even dream of achieving morsi is part of the muslim brotherhood and islam or fascist group they have control over their members and their supporters it is very simple and the country was more than forty five percent of its population are illiterate to control them in the name of religion
to egypt now on the third consecutive day of clashes police and car tear gas or crowds protesting against the president's decree granting him sweeping new powers his decisions can no longer be challenged by any authority more than twenty egyptian rights groups have heard him to renounce the decision your position is valid to fight what he calls a dictator like power grab until the very end and staging a sit in that car is to his square prison morsi though has defended the be saying it's...
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i came back from egypt. i've been overseas for six years, with a good life. i lived in europe. you guys are in a military you know you get to travel. you get to do things. it's on to a lot of neat things you don't normally see. used to keep a horse by the pyramids. how cool is that to good writing and look over and see the pyramids? but i wanted to come home. i hadn't had a son under in country and country country in -- sonic burger and a longtime. i got to attend the fighter weapons school which is the air force version of the navy school. i'd already done the navy school, kind of abbreviated exchange. but it was okay but they are not half of what we are. you guys are air force lieutenants, right? okay, good. nevermind the football game today. that's irrelevant. the whole taking off and landing on a carrier thing, they can keep your it was a good school but it wasn't anything like ours. hours it's six months long and utterly miserable. i mean, i came out of that, a changed human being. some say for the better. i lost almost all of my cockiness. quite a few tailfeathers. then s
i came back from egypt. i've been overseas for six years, with a good life. i lived in europe. you guys are in a military you know you get to travel. you get to do things. it's on to a lot of neat things you don't normally see. used to keep a horse by the pyramids. how cool is that to good writing and look over and see the pyramids? but i wanted to come home. i hadn't had a son under in country and country country in -- sonic burger and a longtime. i got to attend the fighter weapons school...